The CRN editorial team has created the fourth annual Big Data 100, identifying vendors that have demonstrated an ability to innovate in bringing to market products and services that help business work with big data.

With Dell in the process of finalizing its $67 billion acquistion of EMC, the company has named Pete Koliopoulos, an eight-year EMC channel veteran, as vice president of global channels and alliances for its $1.5 billion software group.

The shift from IT-led enterprise reporting to business-led, self-service analytics is upending the business intelligence software market. See where 24 leading vendors were positioned in Gartner's 2016 Business Intelligence and Analytics Platform Magic Quadrant.